'Plain English'

Oliver Kamm writes:

"The Plain English Campaign is the equivalent of the expensively undereducated debutante who thinks it's an amusing idiosyncrasy not to be able to do mental arithmetic."

Oliver is not someone I've ever seen eye to eye with, and while I do dislike his strident tone, I can't help agreeing with his message. The plain English campaign always seems to be hitting out at things you have to think about a little to understand, rather than at actual examples of jarglish. In the examples they seem to be hitting out at difficult or indeed silly ideas expressed in plain enough English.

God help us if sometimes we're expected to think or indeed not understand.